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Hipmunk Says Goodbye

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Re: Hipmunk Says Goodbye

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Post by narrator »

I guess if they were still independent they could just run the app on maintenance mode. Since hosting is so cheap, they couldn't just pay a small team to maintain it?

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Post by coldcode »

artursapek wrote: post #5

RIP. I wonder what happened. I guess it just doesn't make money?

Booking airfares pays almost nothing. When I worked at an OTA (now only a brand of someone else) 4 years ago I think we got $10 at most, likely even less today.

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Post by Multiplayer »

I had the weirdest experience at the airport yesterday, LAX. I went to the the United ticket counter to buy a ticket for lax to nyc, same day. They told me I was better off buying online. In fact they looked completely unprepared to book a ticket. I couldn’t believe it. I checked other counters and sure enough, I was at the right place.

So I tried using Hipmunk yesterday. It felt tired to me for some reason. I ended up booking on Amex platinum travel. Who do people use for booking flights?

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Post by kampsduac »

I used Hipmunk ever since I took Steve Huffman's (founder Reddit and Hipmunk) Udacity course.

Not surprised it didn't make money, I would always use it alongside Kayak and then book directly with the airline/hotel/car company.

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Post by nik_0_0 »

flybrand wrote: post #2

What’s your favorite alternative?

Both Momondo and Google Flights are decent alternatives for finding good flights, although Hipmunk’s visualization feature is better than both.

Momondo had to monetize a little in the past year, and now includes a little bit of referral spam, but still produces good results, their sort by “best” feature is usually helpful!

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Post by kick »

For people who don't know why this is relevant to HN: Hipmunk (YC S10) was co-founded by Steve Huffman as a rebound from reddit (YC S05), and got sold to Concur a few years ago.

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Post by Ididntdothis »

BlameKaneda wrote: post #8
flybrand wrote: post #2

What’s your favorite alternative?

I'm a fan of Matrix: https://matrix.itasoftware.com/

Once you get the hang of it, it's great. You can do stuff no other site can do. This really asks for some kind of query language. Or maybe there is one?
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